As demand has increased for new types of equipment that are more suited to the ever-evolving world of industry, demand for both new and traditional types of act

Authored by a team of acknowledged experts, this book presents a multidisciplinary view of the state of the art in the field of actuators. The goal of the book

As demand has increased for new types of equipment that are more suited to the ever-evolving world of industry, demand for both new and traditional types of act

In the last two decades, a great effort has been directed towards the development of new smart materials actuators and their corresponding application devices a

Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale: Characterization, Control, and Applications gives a state of the art of emerging techniques to the char